Browsers should be more configurable or programmatic (like any other software)

By Vasudev Ram


Browsers should be more configurable or programmatic (like any other software).

Just thought of this when my current browser tab was at extreme left, then I did Ctrl-T in Chrome (create new tab), and the new tab appeared at the extreme right (of the tab bar). There should be a way to change this, like to set the new tab to appear next to your current tab - to either the left or right of it, as you choose, or any other position you configure it to appear at (in your browser settings).

P.S. If any browser makers implement this, you know where to send the royalties ...

#web #innovation #design #UI #UX

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No UI is best - article by @goldenkrishna

The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal

Interesting article. Likely to be controversial, and some of his examples may be a bit exaggerated as to the number of steps, but overall, worth reading for computer people (both hardware and software), IMO.

Seen via a retweet of a tweet by @timoreilly.

The author works at cooper.com, a design firm in SF.

Founded by Alan Cooper, the "father of Visual Basic". I had read the first edition of his book, About Face, long ago. It was an interesting book about UI design and what was wrong with it, even back then.

I need to improve the UI of my own software products, even the command-line ones, and even the APIs of the libraries I've released.

One thing I still remember from the book was the concept of affordances (Google it), and an example he gave of a better scroll bar with both of the arrows at one end of the bar, rather than at opposite ends, the benefit being that you don't have to move the mouse to the other end to change scrolling direction. Neat.

If interested in these ideas, also see my post about muji :-)

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2010/05/muji-simplicity-is-deceptively-complex.html

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Hacker News UI makes me squint

See:

Doing Y Combinator a second time | Hacker News

Check how the text shifts to the right, some way down the page, when the nesting level increases - making it irritating to read.

Happens in many other HN pages too.